How much does Medicare pay for CPT 76705?

Medicare allowed an average of $35.98 per service and paid $26.24 of that, the balance being the patient's coinsurance and deductible (2024 data). Providers submitted an average of $181.78, which is what they billed rather than what they received — Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of the charge.

What is CPT code 76705?

Limited ultrasound scan of abdomen. It was billed 932,866 times to 902,737 Medicare beneficiaries by 19,014 providers in 2024.

Does 76705 pay differently in an office than a hospital?

Yes. The allowed amount averaged $64.17 in an office setting and $26.81 in a facility. The office rate is generally higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that single payment; in a hospital those are billed separately by the facility.

Which specialty bills 76705 most?

Diagnostic Radiology, with 809,793 services from 16,380 clinicians. Next are Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF), Interventional Radiology, Internal Medicine.

CPT 76705

Limited ultrasound scan of abdomen

$35.98Medicare-allowed amount per service, averaged across 932,866 services

Providers submitted

$181.78

Asking price, not received

Medicare allowed

$35.98

The fee schedule figure

Medicare paid

$26.24

Balance is patient coinsurance

Providers submitted an average of $181.78 for this code and Medicare allowed $35.98 — 5.1× less. That gap is normal and means nothing on its own: Medicare pays its fee schedule regardless of what is billed, so the submitted figure describes a hospital chargemaster, not a price anyone paid. Of the allowed amount Medicare paid $26.24 (73%); the rest is the patient’s coinsurance and deductible.

Office pays differently to hospital

Office / non-facility: $64.17
Hospital / facility: $26.81

The office rate is higher because the practice supplies the room, staff and equipment out of that payment. In a hospital the facility bills those separately, so the clinician's share is smaller — the total cost to Medicare is usually higher, not lower. 228,940 services were billed in an office setting and 703,926 in a facility.

Services: 932,866
Beneficiaries: 902,737
Providers billing it: 19,014
Total allowed: $33,564,519

What Medicare pays for CPT 76705

Across 932,866 services billed by 19,014 providers to 902,737 beneficiaries, Medicare allowed an average of $35.98 per service. The allowed amount is the figure that matters: it is what Medicare and the patient together owe, set by the fee schedule and adjusted for local practice costs. What a provider chose to submit has no bearing on it.

Who bills 76705

Specialty	Services	Beneficiaries	Avg allowed	Providers
Diagnostic Radiology	809,793	790,139	$33.30	16,380
Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (IDTF)	36,124	31,745	$64.88	473
Interventional Radiology	33,842	32,932	$31.80	739
Internal Medicine	7,873	7,457	$73.33	214
Urology	7,384	5,992	$84.96	55
Emergency Medicine	6,405	6,293	$33.09	278
General Surgery	5,348	4,915	$41.91	161
Gastroenterology	5,080	4,353	$67.11	147
Family Practice	4,594	4,309	$67.80	153
Nurse Practitioner	2,436	2,078	$47.72	72
Physician Assistant	1,931	1,670	$36.29	77
Cardiology	1,728	1,647	$84.44	35
Nuclear Medicine	1,661	1,515	$34.23	35
Portable X-Ray Supplier	1,060	691	$46.31	13
General Practice	1,041	1,012	$91.02	9

76705 reimbursement by state

Two different numbers. Allowed is what Medicare actually allowed in that state, which includes the local practice-cost adjustment. Standardized strips that geographic adjustment out of the payment, so it is the column to use when comparing states — a difference there reflects how the code was billed, not what it costs to run a practice locally.

State	Services	Allowed	Standardized pmt	Providers
California	99,700	$45.84	$29.31	1,884
Florida	62,078	$41.35	$29.91	1,228
Texas	56,667	$34.82	$25.30	1,369
New York	55,549	$41.92	$28.00	1,070
Illinois	47,757	$34.55	$24.30	874
Pennsylvania	41,882	$31.96	$22.79	874
Ohio	33,083	$29.10	$21.04	607
North Carolina	32,427	$35.21	$25.91	689
Virginia	29,634	$33.97	$24.48	470
Massachusetts	27,747	$33.08	$22.54	531
Michigan	26,822	$29.30	$21.17	547
Maryland	25,583	$47.51	$32.88	368
Georgia	25,243	$31.92	$23.50	552
New Jersey	23,688	$43.68	$29.29	522
Missouri	23,245	$29.40	$21.88	437
Minnesota	22,748	$32.08	$22.44	621
Tennessee	20,986	$35.28	$26.84	473
Washington	19,760	$36.38	$24.62	386
Indiana	18,043	$28.82	$21.43	331
South Carolina	16,749	$33.00	$24.86	324
Wisconsin	15,924	$30.07	$21.88	425
Colorado	15,127	$38.91	$26.21	358
Arizona	14,036	$39.30	$28.42	316
Oklahoma	13,580	$29.39	$21.93	226
Kentucky	12,409	$29.56	$21.78	235
Alabama	12,400	$33.01	$25.42	302
Louisiana	10,887	$28.81	$21.16	273
Mississippi	10,665	$31.83	$24.57	169
Iowa	10,191	$33.40	$24.89	178
Connecticut	10,000	$34.01	$23.52	243
Kansas	9,516	$33.25	$25.25	173
Oregon	8,998	$33.35	$23.30	224
Arkansas	8,737	$28.15	$21.82	184
West Virginia	7,434	$28.82	$20.13	129
Nevada	6,872	$36.80	$26.28	165
Nebraska	5,911	$29.05	$21.76	134
New Hampshire	5,536	$28.17	$19.86	113
New Mexico	4,353	$33.11	$23.46	101
Maine	4,105	$27.87	$18.89	95
Rhode Island	4,073	$43.32	$29.58	83
Idaho	3,916	$27.74	$20.01	105
Delaware	3,911	$35.61	$25.21	59
Utah	3,730	$31.84	$23.36	132
North Dakota	3,206	$29.58	$20.73	54
District of Columbia	2,802	$38.79	$26.28	67
South Dakota	2,627	$28.05	$19.84	57
Alaska	2,540	$43.28	$24.23	53
Montana	2,525	$29.17	$20.33	58
Vermont	2,477	$27.47	$18.99	36
Hawaii	2,326	$43.45	$28.56	56
Wyoming	1,653	$38.07	$27.42	33
Guam	266	$60.10	$34.74	7
ZZ	196	$27.31	$19.45	2
AP	170	$41.13	$25.87	4
AA	167	$26.39	$19.18	2
Puerto Rico	140	$34.40	$25.34	3

Related codes

76770Complete ultrasound scan behind abdominal cavity$58.76
76700Complete ultrasound scan of abdomen$78.56
76775Limited ultrasound scan behind abdominal cavity$44.86
76706Ultrasound scan of abdominal aorta$57.09
76776Ultrasound scan of transplanted kidney$41.96

Billing this code is not the same as earning it

An allowed amount is revenue to a practice, not income to a clinician. It funds staff, premises, equipment and supplies before anyone is paid. What clinicians actually earn is published separately by the Department of Labor, and what industry pays them is published separately again by CMS — this site carries both.

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Where this comes from. CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, by Provider and Service, 2024. It covers fee-for-service Original Medicare Part B only — not Medicare Advantage, not Medicaid, and not commercial insurance, which typically pays more for the same code.

How it is averaged. CMS publishes one average per provider per code. Every figure here is re-weighted by the number of services, so a clinician who billed the code 4,000 times counts 4,000 times more than one who billed it twice. CMS also suppresses any provider-code pair with fewer than 11 beneficiaries, so low-volume practice is missing from these totals by design.